GNTY vs. NIC, CUBI, NTB, TFIN, CLBK, LOB, LC, VBTX, SUPV, and LX
Should you be buying Guaranty Bancshares stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guaranty Bancshares include Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Triumph Financial (TFIN), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), LendingClub (LC), Veritex (VBTX), Grupo Supervielle (SUPV), and LexinFintech (LX). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Guaranty Bancshares vs.
Guaranty Bancshares (NASDAQ:GNTY) and Nicolet Bankshares (NYSE:NIC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking and media sentiment.
Guaranty Bancshares currently has a consensus price target of $37.33, indicating a potential downside of 7.06%. Nicolet Bankshares has a consensus price target of $119.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.62%. Given Nicolet Bankshares' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nicolet Bankshares is more favorable than Guaranty Bancshares.
In the previous week, Nicolet Bankshares had 1 more articles in the media than Guaranty Bancshares. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Nicolet Bankshares and 1 mentions for Guaranty Bancshares. Nicolet Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Guaranty Bancshares' score of -1.00 indicating that Nicolet Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
39.4% of Guaranty Bancshares shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.4% of Guaranty Bancshares shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 16.4% of Nicolet Bankshares shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Guaranty Bancshares received 222 more outperform votes than Nicolet Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.99% of users gave Guaranty Bancshares an outperform vote while only 11.54% of users gave Nicolet Bankshares an outperform vote.
Guaranty Bancshares has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nicolet Bankshares has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nicolet Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Guaranty Bancshares. Nicolet Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guaranty Bancshares, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nicolet Bankshares has a net margin of 23.83% compared to Guaranty Bancshares' net margin of 17.15%. Nicolet Bankshares' return on equity of 10.95% beat Guaranty Bancshares' return on equity.
Guaranty Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Nicolet Bankshares pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Guaranty Bancshares pays out 34.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nicolet Bankshares pays out 13.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Nicolet Bankshares beats Guaranty Bancshares on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GNTY) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
